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He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.

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I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

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I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

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We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

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Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

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If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

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The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

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Insects sting, not out of malice, but because they too want to live: likewise our critics; they want, not to hurt us, but to take our blood.

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These people who have fled inward for their freedom also have to live outwardly, become visible, let themselves be seen; they are united with mankind through countless ties of blood, residence, education, fatherland, chance, the importunity of others; they are likewise presupposed to harbour countless opinions simply because these are the ruling opinions of the time; every gesture which is not clearly a denial counts as agreement.

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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...

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Art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

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Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live. What is required for that is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance. Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity.

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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

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Insects sting, not in malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics: they desire our blood, not our pain.

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My doctrine is: Live that thou mayest desire to live again—that is thy duty—for in any case thou wilt live again!

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When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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He who lives as children live — who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance — remains childlike.

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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

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